MetaFilter posts tagged with kitschhttp://www.metafilter.com/tags/kitsch
Posts tagged with 'kitsch' at MetaFilter.Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:29:38 -0800Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:29:38 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60"the pull of sentimentality away from reality’s hardness"http://www.metafilter.com/146223/the%2Dpull%2Dof%2Dsentimentality%2Daway%2Dfrom%2Drealitys%2Dhardness
<a href="http://www.warscapes.com/opinion/sentimentality-critique-humans-new-york">On Sentimentality: A Critique of Humans of New York</a> <a href="http://columbiaspectator.com/eye/2014/09/11/remove-western-lens">Remove the Western Lens</a>: <blockquote>Humans of New York photographer Brandon Stanton’s “World Tour” involves traveling to 10 countries to showcase the Humans of the Developing World, or rather to answer the novel question: “<em>Are</em> there humans in the developing world?”</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.146223Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:29:38 -0800kenkoThe strangely enduring power of kitschhttp://www.metafilter.com/145568/The%2Dstrangely%2Denduring%2Dpower%2Dof%2Dkitsch
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30439633">The kitsch object encourages you to think, ‘Look at me feeling this—how nice I am and how lovable.’</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.145568Tue, 23 Dec 2014 07:40:29 -0800carrioncomfortA Sea Of Synchronized Spandexhttp://www.metafilter.com/144299/A%2DSea%2DOf%2DSynchronized%2DSpandex
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4oTOnrfYk">This 80s Aerobics video synchs up eerily well to "Shake It Off"</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144299Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:11:09 -0800The WhelkDecopage! (Not the paper kind, the 1989 L.A. public access tv kind!)http://www.metafilter.com/144290/Decopage%2DNot%2Dthe%2Dpaper%2Dkind%2Dthe%2D1989%2DLA%2Dpublic%2Daccess%2Dtv%2Dkind
<a href="http://www.decoupagetv.com/index.html"><i>Decoupage!</i></a> was a 1989 Los Angeles-area public access show produced by Kathe Duba and hosted by Summer Caprice. The original concept was an emulation of early 70s sydicated talk shows such as <i>The Mike Douglas Show</i> and <i>Dinah!</i> and featured elaborate sets, sourced from hours of scouring thrift stores. Also, there are wigs. Lots of wigs.
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Many of the guests were culled from the L.A. club and arts scene, including <a href="http://www.decoupagetv.com/yesclips0204.html">Redd Kross</a>, <a href="http://www.decoupagetv.com/yesclips0404.html">Phranc</a>, and <a href="http://www.decoupagetv.com/yesclips0704.html">Fred Willard</a>. The show returned to the airwaves in 1997 as <i>Decopage! 2000</i> and featured a spoken-word performance by <a href="http://www.decoupagetv.com/tomclips4.html">Exene Cervanka</a> (using her real last name, Cervankova) and <a href="http://www.decoupagetv.com/tomclips6.html">Karen Black singing "Bang Bang" with back-up band L7</a>.
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• Direct link to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPqa4pFVPmh7Y0Zg3V_RTaw"><i>Decopage!</i> You Tube Channel</a></i><br><br>
[<a href="http://dangerousminds.net/comments/karen_black_fronts_l7_and_exene_cervenka_reads_her_conspiracy_poetry_in_dec">via</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144290Fri, 07 Nov 2014 08:50:03 -0800Room 641-AJohn, Paul, George, Ringo need not applyhttp://www.metafilter.com/139795/John%2DPaul%2DGeorge%2DRingo%2Dneed%2Dnot%2Dapply
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLoJEU8LvT4&amp;list=PLuDX6epYAVoPOd424l9Ob0zACvu5c5zX4">Finding the Beatles too intense, too lyrical? Try 101 Strings</a> Imagine a person who in the late sixties decided that the Beatles were too intense, too opinionated for them; they loved the music but not the message. That person could get just what they wanted in the form of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_Strings">101 Strings</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.139795Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:32:13 -0800FerreousBrushed chrome details and a shag carrying case.http://www.metafilter.com/138404/Brushed%2Dchrome%2Ddetails%2Dand%2Da%2Dshag%2Dcarrying%2Dcase
<a href="http://www.alexvaranese.com/work/alt1977">ALT/1977</a> is a series of advertising mock-ups which imagines modern products with the aesthetics and production of 1970s consumer electronics. Faux-wood paneling, angular fonts, and more orange than you can shake a stick at. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138404Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:50:04 -0800codacorollaI know it when I see it.http://www.metafilter.com/137656/I%2Dknow%2Dit%2Dwhen%2DI%2Dsee%2Dit
<a href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/think-you-know-ugly-think-again/">Think You Know Ugly? Think Again</a> <blockquote>You might feel revolted by an object, but if you try to objectively explain why it is ugly, it’s harder than you think. Most people are influenced by the dominant tastes and fashion sensibilities of their generation, class, and ethnic group, and when you remove those factors from the equation, an exact, universal definition of “ugliness” becomes almost impossible to pin down.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/ugly-is-the-new-beautiful-from-aesthetic-monstrosity-to-design-masterpiece-8219717.html">Ugly is the new beautiful: From aesthetic monstrosity to design masterpiece </a>
Stephen Bayley writes in <i>The Architectural Review</i>: <a href="http://www.architectural-review.com/comment-and-opinion/broader-view/the-ugly-truth-the-beauty-of-ugliness/8641754.article">The Ugly Truth: The Beauty of Ugliness</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.137656Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:50:26 -0800the man of twists and turnsThe Snows Of Sbarro'shttp://www.metafilter.com/136704/The%2DSnows%2DOf%2DSbarros
In 2011, the upscale White Flint Shopping mall was closed and planned for demolition, <a href="http://duckpiedotcom.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/american-pompeii-after-the-food-court-closes/">but not before someone went in and photographed the interior and food court in all its pastel-neon-plastic 80s glory.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.136704Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:38:50 -0800The WhelkCartons, not contentshttp://www.metafilter.com/134851/Cartons%2Dnot%2Dcontents
<a href="http://eggnogproject.com/">The Eggnog Project</a> is the collection of Madeleine Eiche. "The peculiarities of the packaging range from festive to banal, minimal to unappetizing, and each seem to be printed with complete disregard for color alignment. It is precisely these things that make for such compelling kitsch." tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.134851Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:21:19 -0800oneswellfoopMovie Posters from a Hollywood where Values Are...Different.http://www.metafilter.com/134613/Movie%2DPosters%2Dfrom%2Da%2DHollywood%2Dwhere%2DValues%2DAreDifferent
<a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1718639/simpsons-fake-movie-posters.jhtml">Red Jalopy creates posters for 10 fake films from <i>The Simpsons</i>.</a> Fake promotional materials for fictional movies have become a popular form of amateur and professional graphic design on the web and in real life. The latest entry, <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1718639/simpsons-fake-movie-posters.jhtml">Red Jalopy's posters for ten fictional films featured on <i>The Simpsons</i></a>, plays with fantasy casting and period design elements. It follows <a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/awesome_of_the_day/2013/12/posters-for-fake-seinfeld-movie-mysteriously-appear-in-new-york.html">the recent appearance of posters for <i>Seinfeld's</i> fake foreign movie, <i>Rochelle, Rochelle</i> around New York City</a> and the circulation online of a <a href="http://comicbook.com/blog/2013/11/14/wonder-twins-movie-real-or-fake/">Wonder Twins movie</a>. Is the sudden boom in this trend simply a fad for <a href="http://www.borges.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/Toro%20The%20foundation.pdf">Borgesian play in which all art is equally fantastical and unreal,</a>, an extension of what Steven Dillon terms "The Solaris Effect," the performance of cinephilia as "the endless signifying of postmodernism"</a>, or <a href="http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/first_and_last/works/realer.htm">a dominant cultural logics of simulacrum in the final stages of its self-unmasking?</a> Or is it just <a href="http://www.crushable.com/2012/04/24/entertainment/hungry-hungry-hippos-fake-movie-poster-battleship-953/">fun kitsch parody?</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/117416/Vamonos-That-means-Lets-go#4426113">(Previously in Metafilter comments</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/107950/Fake">Previously on Metafilter on Fake Criterion.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.134613Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:20:14 -0800kewbYou turned down a date to go to a stupid slumber party!http://www.metafilter.com/132835/You%2Dturned%2Ddown%2Da%2Ddate%2Dto%2Dgo%2Dto%2Da%2Dstupid%2Dslumber%2Dparty
She was only a video store clerk - until the store TV started speaking to her! Blockbuster training video from 1990, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc_yHON1oiQ">pts 1</a> and<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7JiQaKJcSc"> 2.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.132835Mon, 14 Oct 2013 06:33:00 -0800mippySurvived by his dog, Spot.http://www.metafilter.com/131773/Survived%2Dby%2Dhis%2Ddog%2DSpot
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Worthington">Calvin Coolidge "Cal" Worthington</a> and his "dog", Spot, were fixtures on 1970's TV in Southern California. Cal saturated the commercial breaks during the overnight hours on four of the seven television stations in Los Angeles, which had agreed to fill their overnight schedules by playing movies. <a href="http://www.mydogspot.com/video.htm">Go See Cal and his "dog" Spot</a> was the gimmick, but his "dog" was always a tiger, orca, seal, giraffe, monkey, even a hippopotomus but never, never a dog. He also, being in Los Angeles, appeared in a number of TV shows including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Emergency! Cal epitomized late 60's, early 70's California kitsch.
Cal died at his ranch this morning. Pour one out for Cal, and his dog, Spot.
<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/64820/Go-See-Cal-Go-See-Cal-Go-See-Cal">Previously.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.131773Mon, 09 Sep 2013 12:50:29 -0800Sophie1“It's exactly what you think it is—a tornado full of sharks”http://www.metafilter.com/129922/Its%2Dexactly%2Dwhat%2Dyou%2Dthink%2Dit%2Disa%2Dtornado%2Dfull%2Dof%2Dsharks
The rise of video-on-demand services like Netflix and dedicated cable-TV channels has created <a href="http://www.psmag.com/culture/escapes-from-the-asylum-60701/">a new industry in low-budget B-movies</a>; meet <a href="http://www.theasylum.cc/">Asylum Films</a>, an outfit in California following in the footsteps of historical B-movie auteurs like Roger Corman, Menahem Golan and Uwe Boll, with films with titles like <i>Sharknado</i>, <i>Transmorphers</i>, <i>Sex Pot</i> and <i>Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies</i>. Asylum's new B-movies are made quickly and cheaply to ride the coattails of the big studios' fads, filling gaps in the market for more films about, say, adorable puppies, alien battleships or apocalypses. The films are made to a strict formula, are played entirely seriously, with no hint of irony or knowingness, and are designed primarily to pad out rental lists and appeal to recommendation engines, though the producers point out that often mainstream Hollywood fare is often no less hackneyed and formulaic. (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/53363/Snakes-on-a-train-Apparently-there-is-more-to-say">Previously...</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.129922Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:36:30 -0800acbTinkertown, on the far side of the mountain from Albuquerquehttp://www.metafilter.com/129732/Tinkertown%2Don%2Dthe%2Dfar%2Dside%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dmountain%2Dfrom%2DAlbuquerque
<em><a href="http://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/new-mexico/albuquerque/review-105242.html">It may take months for this odyssey of a place to completely sink in</a>: quirky and utterly fascinating, <a href="http://tinkertown.com/">Tinkertown Museum</a> contains <a href="http://daughternumberthree.blogspot.com/2010/08/tinkertown-museum-in-new-mexico.html">a world of miniature carved-wood characters</a>. The museum's late founder, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31408547@N06/3081432138/">Ross Ward, spent more than 40 years carving and collecting the hundreds of figures</a> that populate this cheerfully bizarre museum, including <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYMSWT_y-AY">an animated miniature Western village, a Boot Hill cemetery</a>, and <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/261490322084969001/">a 1940s circus exhibit</a>. Ragtime piano music, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9575673@N08/2932482228/">a 40-foot sailboat</a> (that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1890352209/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">traveled around the world for a decade</a>), and a life-size general store are other highlights. The walls surrounding this 22-room museum have been <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlbzZgqurEI">fashioned out of more than 50,000 glass bottles pressed into cement</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcgHFzNppnE">This homage to folk art, found art, and eccentric kitsch</a> tends to strike a chord with people of all ages.</em> R.J. Ward was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in the late 1990s, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldslargestthings/2586523641/">his family and friends distracted him from his symptoms with one last project</a>: <a href="http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMA0ZV_Tinkertown_Museum_Art_Car_Sandia_Park_New_Mexico">an art car</a>. The museum serves as a memorial to Ward's creativity and dedication to his craft. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.129732Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:50:15 -0800filthy light thiefHer hair color ....varies from blond to brunet across the collectionhttp://www.metafilter.com/128562/Her%2Dhair%2Dcolor%2Dvaries%2Dfrom%2Dblond%2Dto%2Dbrunet%2Dacross%2Dthe%2Dcollection
"Fabiola has been a beloved subject for countless painters, most of them amateurs. The portrait’s format is almost always the same: Fabiola is seen in profile facing left, her head covered by a rich red veil.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/arts/design/05alys.html?_r=1&">Mr. Al&#0255;s, who was born in Belgium in 1959 and moved to Mexico City in 1990, began collecting Fabiola paintings — as the genre is called — about 15 years ago, buying them at thrift shops, flea markets and antiques stores primarily in Mexico and Europe. He has previously shown his collection three times, when it was much smaller</a>; the current presentation includes more than 300 works.<a href="http://uterusfactory.tumblr.com/post/51673631688/likeafieldmouse-francis-alys-fabiola-2008"> Photos of the exhibition</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128562Thu, 30 May 2013 16:54:45 -0800The WhelkSon is clearly going to grow up to be a Bucky the Beaver furryhttp://www.metafilter.com/124386/Son%2Dis%2Dclearly%2Dgoing%2Dto%2Dgrow%2Dup%2Dto%2Dbe%2Da%2DBucky%2Dthe%2DBeaver%2Dfurry
<a href="http://s349909351.websitehome.co.uk/blog/?p=342">Vintage Home Computer Ads Revisited</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.124386Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:03:53 -0800acbKitsch, chic and swankhttp://www.metafilter.com/110278/Kitsch%2Dchic%2Dand%2Dswank
<a href="http://www.ultraswank.net/">Ultra Swank</a> - Retro Living and Design from the 50s, 60s and 70s. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.110278Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:46:30 -0800unliteralSo remember to smile when you feel "low"http://www.metafilter.com/97277/So%2Dremember%2Dto%2Dsmile%2Dwhen%2Dyou%2Dfeel%2Dlow
Art collective <a href="http://www.paperrad.org/">Paper</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Rad">Rad</a> wants you to <a href="http://www.paperrad.org/getwell/">get well.</a> (blinky) tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.97277Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:04:49 -0800Rory MarinichCurved couches of the autocratshttp://www.metafilter.com/94691/Curved%2Dcouches%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dautocrats
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7935165/Private-jets-to-go-on-show-at-Brighton-Photography-Biennial.html">Inside the private jets of African dictators and other heads of state.</a> (Slideshow of photographs by <a href="http://nicksphoto.com/">Nick Gleis</a>.) tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.94691Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:03:30 -0800WPWBad Postcardshttp://www.metafilter.com/92336/Bad%2DPostcards
<a href="http://bad-postcards.tumblr.com/">Bad Postcards</a>: featuring <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0hoe8Q1UE1qbyf2jo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1275114087&Signature=DkMT8a7tr%2Fgi%2BWHFPH6uYXFu72U%3D">Quacky</a>, <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l30itn4fkJ1qbyf2jo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1275172495&Signature=X3A7sC5hOVdaXd8I26gI%2BJP9prQ%3D">Bunnies</a>, <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l26op5SEts1qbyf2jo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1275172672&Signature=xZN7ZAPNDrT%2FdsPnCP1Qhiot07s%3D">Dino</a>, <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0u2niMJDV1qbyf2jo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1275118473&Signature=McDrTo9fFfRJRTIYnQ9BfLsoAUM%3D">Piggy</a> and <a href="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1ezksZFOr1qbyf2jo1_400.jpg">Lee Harvey</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.92336Fri, 28 May 2010 15:40:36 -0800puny humancolours of passionhttp://www.metafilter.com/90909/colours%2Dof%2Dpassion
<a href="http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020428/spectrum/main2.htm">Raja Ravi Varma</a> (1848-1906), considered “<a href="http://www.indiancentury.com/varma.htm">the greatest painter of India</a>,” “<a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26290">the father of modern Indian art</a>,” and a “<a href="http://www.cyberkerala.com/rajaravivarma/">prince among painters and a painter among princes</a>.” Varma became <a href="http://www.indianartcircle.com/arteducation/ravi.shtml">renowned both</a> for <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/people/The-Rajas-New-Clothes-/articleshow/5136736.cms">his portraiture</a> and his paintings of Indian<a href="http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no32739.htm"> mythology</a>. The <a href="http://www.bharatwaves.com/news/Ketan-Mehta-makes-film-on-Raja-Ravi-Varma-13484.html">painter's life</a> and times <a href="http://www.screenindia.com/news/raja-ravi-varmas-last-painting-sold-for-over-seven-crore/403179/">played</a> a major <a href="http://www.rangrasiya.com/">role</a> in the <a href="http://www.boloji.com/women/07011a.htm">shaping of the women</a> he painted and <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_film-on-raja-ravi-varma-worth-a-watch-randeep-hooda_1219831">controversy</a> over <a href="http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?264913">the way he painted</a> them. <a href="http://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/IDE723/">Varma's</a> images have not <a href="http://www.archerindia.com/oleographs,lithographs/default.asp">just survived</a>, but due to <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/popup/25-01-09_Rajas_Artists.pdf">his vision</a> of <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/ravivarmalithos/">making them accessible</a> to the <a href="http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/body_city/culture.html">common man</a>, they <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/mag/2009/01/11/stories/2009011150260800.htm">have thrived</a> over a century <a href="http://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/aug/02hot.htm">and</a> influence <a href="http://passionforcinema.com/rang-rasiya-colors-from-the-life-of-raja-ravi-varma/">movie</a>s, <a href="http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2008/07/04/stories/2008070450600300.htm">television</a>, the world's <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/moody72/2655619724/">most expensive </a>sari, <a href="http://mattersofart.blogspot.com/">theatre and</a> everyday <a href="http://www.astrojyoti.com/ravivarma.htm">calender art</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.90909Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:02:43 -0800infinia vague nostalgia for a benevolent, quasi-modernist English bureaucratic aesthetichttp://www.metafilter.com/85088/a%2Dvague%2Dnostalgia%2Dfor%2Da%2Dbenevolent%2Dquasimodernist%2DEnglish%2Dbureaucratic%2Daesthetic
<a href="http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/print.asp?editorial_id=28469">Lash Out and Cover Up</a>: <a href="http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com/">Owen Hatherley</a> in <i><a href="http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/">Radical Philosophy</a></i> on "<a href="http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/keepcalm.php">Keep Calm and Carry On</a>," manufactured nostalgia for austerity, and <a href="http://www.peoplewillalwaysneedplates.co.uk/modern.html">modernist kitsch</a>, in its <a href="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2002/11/56152">authoritarian</a> and <a href="http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2009/04/lash-out-and-cover-up.html">ironically adapted</a> forms. <small>(Previous <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/76703/Keep-Calm-and-Carry-On">calm-keeping and on-carrying</a> and <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/66517/The-writings-of-Owen-Hatherley">Owen</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/65490/The-Fever-Dream-of-Comrade-Koolhaas">Hatherley</a>.)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.85088Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:06:28 -0800RogerBHold still!http://www.metafilter.com/84884/Hold%2Dstill
From the same wicked awesome site that brought you the <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/73549/Youre-not-like-the-others-You-like-the-same-things-I-do-Wax-paper-Boiled-football-leather-Dog-breath">totally unofficial Ren and Stimpy soundtrack</a>, Kirk Demarais gets nostalgic, drawing family portraits of cult-famous families of the last three decades. Take a stroll down memory lane with the <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y0ZlSySQA1Q/Sl4W8_3qtQI/AAAAAAAAFv4/boElCO4IEY0/s400/cult22.jpg">Torrances</a>, the <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y0ZlSySQA1Q/Sl4W8s79pEI/AAAAAAAAFvw/Hf_SXHo6ejw/s400/cult12.jpg">Lundegaardes</a>, the <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y0ZlSySQA1Q/Sl4W9fJEDII/AAAAAAAAFwA/W8kd8hJfKZg/s400/cult32.jpg">Griswolds</a>, and <a href="http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2009/07/crazy-4-cult-3-d-family-portraits.html">other infamous families</a>. Part of a larger art exhibit, Demarais' work and other kitsch <a href="http://www.1988crazy4cult3.blogspot.com/">can be found here</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.84884Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:21:44 -0800Blazecock PileonThe dead hand of neo-traditionalismhttp://www.metafilter.com/82506/The%2Ddead%2Dhand%2Dof%2Dneotraditionalism
Controversy has erupted in Britain after it emerged that Prince Charles <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/15/prince-charles-richard-rogers-architecture">used his personal influence with Qatari royalty to sack modernist architect Richard Rogers</a> from a development in London. Charles has been an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/apr/23/architecture-prince-charles-design?picture=346370871">outspoken critic of modern architecture</a> and advocate of neo-traditionalist styles, and even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury">created a model village to showcase his ideas about "proper" architecture</a>. Charles' preferred replacement for Rogers is Quinlan Terry, known for his neo-classicist leanings. There is more at stake than the question of Charles' architectural tastes. For one, Britain's constitutional monarchy is meant to refrain from exercising powers over the day-to-day business of government, and the possibility of the future king having used his influence to bend the planning process to his tastes raises a troubling precedent. Some are saying that such interventions on his part are specifically unconstitutional. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.82506Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:39:49 -0800acbA while ago, Michael Jackson...http://www.metafilter.com/81197/A%2Dwhile%2Dago%2DMichael%2DJackson
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulscheer/sets/72157617373340442/">Photos from the Neverland Ranch auction</a> A while ago, Michael Jackson was short of cash, and decided to auction off the contents of Neverland Ranch, his combined palace/fun park, down to the last vanity painting and statue. A guy named Paul Scheer went along with a camera, took photos of some of the more peculiar items and put them online. It's certainly a unique collection. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.81197Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:08:01 -0800acb